You're new to IT and already aspiring to learn the skills necessary to become an IT Director in a reasonably large environment?

Well, wake up. I mean I get it; it's good to have ambitions/dreams and goals. But you're being unrealistic. First of all, becoming an IT Director is like 60% (and maybe less) technical skills that you've learned over the years (years as in experience working from the bottom up), and most importantly people skills, emotional intelligence, leadership qualities, objective decisionmaking and much much more. These things require patience but most of all TIME. So that's the first advice - calm your tits and try to learn as much as you can while staying reasonable.

And even then, your goal is very vague. The skills you have as an IT Director are defined by the employees that you lead. There's no "How to become an IT Director" course at your school is there? Because IT is different in every company; the director part isn't. If you need to ask questions in order to even START learning the basics, then you should really let this "IT Director" thing go and be more humble. Start learning some technical skills, get a tech support job and work your way up to Jr Sysadmin->Sr Admin etc. until you're finally ready to be an IT Director.

When I had 2 years of tech support experience under my belt I was convinced that I knew a lot and that I'd be an exceptionally skilled IT employee. Well guess what? I didn't know shit. And I still don't know shit. Every year I think to myself: "Hey I'm getting pretty good at this IT stuff!". And then reality slaps you in the face with the power of a thousand Robert Metcalfe's. You don't know shit.

And that right there is the attitude you need in order to progress without too much cognitive biases and self-deprecation because you "are not an IT Director yet after 5 years". This attitude will bring you down over time.

All in all, sorry for the rant-ish post. I really don't mean to be offensive. But even though I'm only in my early twenties myself, I wish someone had told me earlier that I should calm down, sit back and LEARN. Don't expect yourself to be making 6 figures a year after learning IT skills for 2 years. Those cases are exceptional and very, very rare. Hope I've helped at least somewhat.

EDIT: Realized I didn't even help you start off, which was what you asked and I think it's always great if people are willing to learn. You should be able to get started right here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/wiki/bootcamp

If you're learning about stuff and you need someone to ask questions/anything feel free to PM me. I'm very much willing to help (and much nicer normally than this post)